It's a moment that will be forever remembered in history.

Half a century ago on July 20, 1969, American astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin became the first humans ever to land on the moon, four days after the launch of the Apollo 11 mission.

As he set took his first step, Armstrong uttered the famous words: "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."

And if you're old enough to remember this significant event, you'll probably remember exactly where you were and what you were doing.

So if you were living in Chester at the time, these old pictures we have uncovered from the week of the moon landings will take you back to a time when the Swinging Sixties were on the cusp of drawing to a close.

The late 1960s were a time of great change  - and Chester was no exception.

Much of the construction we see today in the city was built in the 1960s - residents had been battling with traffic so an inner ring road was created which required demolition of many old buildings, which did not go down particularly well with residents.

Two years earlier the old Victorian style market had been knocked down after trading for more than a century, to be replaced by a new building on Princess Street.

And Cheshire police’s headquarters were getting too small for the growing requirements in the constabulary so a new building had to be erected and it was decided that Chester only really needed one railway station instead of two.

But these images show what the streets and rows of Chester looked like one quiet Friday in July 1969, the week that world history was being made, at a time when anti war demonstration was rife in the midst of the Vietnam War and Thunderclap Newman were number one in the charts with Something in the Air.